Misfiring Gunners Grind Out A Valuable Three Points
Jan 29th, 2019 by 'holic
Unai Emery rotated his squad for the visit of Cardiff City. Bernd Leno started a back four of Stephan Lichsteiner, Shkodran Mustafi, Nacho Monreal, and Sead Kolasinac. We started with a diamond midfield of Mohamed Elneny, Matteo Guendouzi, Lucas Torreira, and the recalled Mesut Ozil. The pairing of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette was retained up front.
Before kick-off a minute of reflection was held for Emiliano Sala, the big January signing destined never to play for his new club. The whistle sounded and the Arsenal started purposefully. Guendouzi and Kolasinac combined to create an opportunity for Lacazette who couldn’t get the ball out of his feet quickly enough thereby allowing a defender to block his attempt.
The industrious Guendouzi then found an advanced Elneny who also saw his effort blocked. Cardiff responded with a Paterson header from a corner which was, you guessed it, also blocked. Buoyed, Cardiff attacked again and another header, this time from Reid, tested our defensive resolve again.
The visitors attitude was admirable although the Gunners went close twice at successive corners which fell to Mustafi but these were rare moments of progress as we were not winning the midfield battle at this point. At the other end Paterson and Reid headers again had Arsenal hearts in mouths.
Bookings were traded, Monreal for The Arsenal and Paterson for Cardiff. Twice Mike Dean ruled that Lacazette was not the victim of a foul in the box but we had earlier survived a shout when Monreal appeared to trip a Bluebird in the area.
As the half came to a close we found our mojo again but a the final creative burst did not produce a finish. At least we had shown that a spark remained in another indifferent first-half performance. Again Emery made a change during the break with Alex Iwobi replacing Elneny.
Guendouzi launched our first opportunity of the half into the North Bank and Cardiff attempted retaliatory strikes from Paterson (wide) and Gunnarsson (into the Clock End). What we didn’t want to see was a Gunners defender land awkwardly on his ankle and stay down. Shkodran Mustafi had lengthy treatment and continued with a marked limp. Hopefully he wasn’t making it worse. Surprisingly Lichtsteiner made way for Carl Jenkinson which suggested Mustafi was being trusted to see the game out.
Going into the final half an hour Cardiff combined workmate with not entirely surprising management of the clock. The blue touch paper was lit when Arter, surprise surprise, hit Guendouzi late on the ankle with his studs. Dean ducked what appeared a clear red card and showed just a yellow to the serial offender.
The breakthrough arrived moments later. Kolasinac was felled in the box by Manga. It was third time lucky for the hosts and Aubameyang converted with ease.
The Arsenal 1-0 Cardiff City
The goal released what was once infamously described as the ‘handbrake’. Iwobi burst clear down the left, cut in and shot, drawing a one handed save by Etheridge to his left. Kolasinac tried his luck from the edge of the area but his shot was blocked, of course. Next to try his luck was Lacazette but his curler was narrowly wide of the far post.
The final substitution with a quarter of an hour remaining saw the captain for the night, Ozil, making way for Aaron Ramsey. Although he had not been at his best there were clear signs of greater industry from him and a half full stadium gave him a warm ovation as he departed the scene. He responded with a wave of gratitude.
The end of another flowing move saw Torreira drive the ball wide of Etheridge’s right hand post. Lacazette saw yellow for a dramatic tumble. If only there were consistency over the issue. Salah would have got his free-kick for similar. Is that unfair?
Lacazette of course was making a rare full appearance having survived Emery’s usual hook and guess what? If you leave him on he does what he does best. Genuinely tripped, he quickly rose to his feet on the right flank and made a beeline for the goal before unleashing a fierce drive that deflected off Etheridge inside his far post.
The Arsenal 2-0 Cardiff City
Guendouzi was again taken out by a late and poor challenge from Ralls, awarded a yellow card by the man who has shown more red cards this season than any of his PGMOL colleagues.
What should have been a rare and welcome clean sheet was denied us in the third of five added minutes. Mendez-Laing cut inside Iwobi and curled one inside the far post for a late consolation. The visitors deserved that for their first-half performance.
The Arsenal 2-1 Cardiff City
There remained time for Aubameyang and Ramsey to be denied a third goal for the hosts. The final whistle confirmed we had grabbed an important three points although far from our best. We will have to be much more determined and resolute to avoid serious punishment from Manchester City this weekend, but as I type I am watching the closing stages of their match at Newcastle where they led early but are now 2-1 down with only the added five minutes to play.
Could there be a sting in the tail. Could the Arsenal that turned up against Tottenham and Chelsea turn up and face the City that has huffed and puffed so far this evening? We can but hope and pray.
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City screw it up and Pool look like getting their first league title. Shit.
Fast on the draw, as ever, Guv’nor.
Take the three points and move on.
United dropping a couple of points and City getting beaten warms the evening a bit/
Great report on a very positive night for the Arsenal, speaking of the result that is. 3 points gained on City, 2 on United.
Good night for Fulham too, going 0-2 down and then 4-2 up.
Thanks for another quick but spot on report. Man Utd dropped two points which gives us some cushion. All in all a great evening, especially those watching on TV.
Your report was more entertaining than the game itself, Holic. Nice work.
Says it all when Elneny who has hardly been sighted all season gets a start,in what was a very disjointed unbalanced team performance.
Ozil captain . ?? Bizarre.
I just saw Leno’s after match comments that ‘ we were nervous knowing Cardiff’s quality and physical game ”
Well fuck knows what we will be at City at the w/end if that’s the case.
But winning when struggling is a bonus,so no complaints from me.
Good to see Nacho back and looking composed. And even the Corporal got a run out.
I worry for Guendouzi’s legs. He seems to get clattered more than most.
Ornstein reporting that a deal for Denis Suarez to come on loan from Barcelona is on. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47049873
Great quick report Holic!
What iBTM said above ?, we could also do with Leicester doing us a favour in the early kick off on Sunday!
I enjoyed the half hour drive back through driving snow more than I enjoyed the first half tonight. Emery really ( especially for someone who does such detailed video preparation) got his side wrong again. Torreira was too far forward and we had nobody but Ozzie driving forward. Some of Ozil’s early play was sublime but also a bit superficial. Liam Brady would increase the intensity of the play as the game demanded it , Ozil performs some lovely vignettes but if they don’t work so be it.
The addition of the ( wrongly) maligned Iwobi and the later addition of Ramsey and an adjustment of Torreira’s position gave us a much more productive base. Guendouzi is raw but he gives us much more mobility than Xhaka.
It was a definite pen and great determination from Lacazette to bag the second but the lad took their goal well catching Leno unsighted . Our defence held up ok against a fairly blunt attack but Citeh will be a different thing altogether. I can’t see us getting within three goals personally .
Agreed Ned that our opponents have been targeting Guendouzi with some really bad fouls. He has stood up quite well so far but I think we need to play him a bit less over the next month to give him more recovery time before the toll gets too heavy.
Thanks Guvnor – headline said it
all really.
Welcome to Suarez, I think we got
it right with the terms and be good
to have a look at him over the next
3 months.
Hopefully Bournemouth and/or
Watford can do us a favour as
well tonight.
Can Leicester save the world please, i completely detest pool and it will become unbearable to see them win the league, just unbearable. Please save the universe you joker vardy.
We played alright and we seem to be in that state always nowadays, I ain’t complaining but its plain obvious we have become pedestrian nowadays. If we win with it, everything seems ok but that won’t be the case always and we know that. Anyways a win is a win and it was achieved mainly because we improved in the second half and Cardiff did not take the chances they had in the first.
Ozil just won’t take any risks, he has the fear in him that he is been judged and in that, we are losing his talent. Lacazette for me is our player of the season, Auba anonymous as he has been for the last few games but a goal helps, playing Torreira higher up the pitch is stupid, he came to his own second half when he played deeper, our defense was comical but for monreal although mustafi did have a block worth the mention, kola as a defender is well documented.
We all know we won’t have much of a chance against city but then if we make it a real contest, it will continue the rich tradition of recent times of these games being among the best to watch, not the last season though, we were pulverized and this season our home fixture showed the glaring disparity. Can we produce one of those 2015-16 season performance, the Santi Cazorla game!! We don’t have him of course, but can the whole team step up?? Till then let’s wait for the arrival of Dennis Suarez and maybe just maybe a defender, not Cahill please.
Another trying watch at the Emirates. The best moment of the match was Iwobi’s through ball to Kolasinac which brought about the pen.
I was bored to tears for most of the game, left early and missed the Cardiff late goal.
Whether the Norfolk Gooners get to Citi on Sunday will depend on the weather. We will have to play a more attacking team than that set out last night and show some spunk (as my late husband would have said).
Delia is not a happy Gooner. I’m seriously concerned that we have the wrong man in post as coach. As I have said before I can’t see any improvement in the side and here we are in the second half of the season.
We seem to motivate ourselves for the odd high profile home match but for the most part our play this season has been well below what AFC should be offering the loyal fans who pay the highest ticket prices in the league . No one could say we are getting value for money.
I agree with Delia above I have mentioned the motivation part before and was told I was harsh. Still I don’t think much improvement has been made, on the other hand he needs a bit more time. Time will tell and I hope he can prove himself.
Another instantly forgettable match, but a very valuable three points, I more and more think that Ozil is playing a game with Emery because he is not playing it with his team-mates.
His so called world class abilities include making chances out of nothing, after all he has provided more chances for goals than every other football player alive (I may be a wee bit sarcastic here) and yet again watching him be a little less useless than Xhaka is scant consolation.
But despite our still unlucky defensive position and lack of verve at the moment, we did grind out a win on a difficult night.
Still not convinced but not utterly despondent either.
The Suárez loan is confirmed. I am not dancing on the ceiling but hopefully he will reach his full potential with regular football
Your Denis Suarez fun fact: He comes from the same small Galician town as the father of the American actor Martin Sheen.
When he played for Sevilla on loan from Barca, Emery used him mainly as a No 10, and sometimes as a left winger. So I guess that means one or both of Ramsey or Ozil will be off soon. Perhaps Juve will give us a small fee if they can have Ramsey this month. But if Suarez plays on the left wing, how do Laca and Auba both fit in the team? Interesting that Emery said after the Cardiff game that we need wingers. I would have thought we need centre-halfs.
VP@15: for Ozil to be fully effective in setting up chances for Laca and Auba, all three of them have to be playing together regularly.
Wanting to watch Watford topple a turgid Tottenham.
“A little less useless than Xhaka” @18.
Setting a new record for low bar setting?
A proper right back wouldn’t go amiss either. Lichsteiner was pretty abysmal last night and may ( should) be a one season wonder. AMN has looked raw defensively and though I love him to bits Jenko isn’t the answer .
Nice report H on a dour affair. We took the three points which was the main thing. Not a great performance and well done to anyone who braved the elements last night.
Despite all the negativity, I do think there are positives. I do think the negativity from some around Emery is a tad harsh. First of all, you need to look at what he has inherited. You also need to take into account the lacklustre owner and numerous areas of shear incompetence off the field. We are coming to the end of his second transfer window are are trawling Europe with a begging bowl trying to get a few loan deals completed? That hardly makes for rapid progress.
The transfer and contract buffoonery that has gone on over the last few years will not be overturned in the short term.
I think it’s a case of strapping in and preparing for a bumpy ride. There have been positives. Aubamayang and Lacazette are looking a great pairing up front. Torreira is definitely a great addition to the squad. Guendouzi looks an incredible signing and a real prospect for the future. Out problem will be trying to keep hold of him.
The defence is of major concern. I think it’s hard to judge Leno until he gets the chance to play in front of a solid defence. Against The Chavs we finally got to play our strongest centre back pairing. I’m sure there is no one more saddened than Emery to see the unlucky injuries that both picked up. Get both back playing a number of games together and I will be surprised if we don’t start to look stronger.
We are a long way of where we need to be and I don’t think that with the current regime that this will be a quick fix.
Keep the faith people.
And how about that David Brooks kid from the Cherries?
Great results so far don’t want to jinx anything but it’s looking good!
Chaos now down 2-0 to the Cherries.
Brooks off with an injury after a goal and an assist against Chavs. Only cost £11.M from Sheffield.
And now 3-0 at the Vitality.
Chelski are being taught a lesson! 🙂
Chelski officially thrashed!
4-0 for the Cherries! And Chavs and the Arsenal now even on GD.
I have sympathy with the points made by both Delia and Steve T. I’m still scratching my head about what our style of play is and in games against lower-ranked teams we can begin games so apathetically. But as Steve said Emery must be perplexed that a club of Arsenal’s size is so cash – constrained and this is demonstrably not his squad.
My biggest current concern is whether the likes of Nkunku and Suarez are any better in the long-term than Willock or ESR ( who is off to Leipzig on loan) or even young Saka. I’d like to see them given a chance because I don’t want us to become Chelsea with thirty odd players out on loan and possibly losing their best prospect to Germany because he doesn’t play .
And they lost 4-0 tonight at Bournemouth. With the Totts struggling with injuries we might be the only ones in the top six who win in this round of games!
Arsenal now in fourth due to the most technical of technicalities, having scored more goals than Chelsea. Arsenal scored 50 while Chelsea have scored only 40.
Due to conceding so many fewer goals, Chelsea have scored almost twice as many goals as their opponents but their far superior defensive record, in comparison to Arsenal, does not help them in this case.
Never trust Watford.
Spuds have been incredibly lucky in the league. But players screwing Sarri at Chelsea?
Bournemouth 4 Chelsea 0.
That was mildly amusing.
Especially the 1, 2, 3, and 4 of it. 😉
Enjoyed the Chavski meltdown too.
Much more fun than the Spud
comeback anyway.
4th after a string of iffy performances
isn’t so bad.
But I must admit I’d be more
annoyed if I’d gone to some of
our games.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, OM.
Oracle Ornstein says loan deals for Inter Milan’s Perisic and Dalian Yifang’s Yannick Carrasco are now dead ducks but PSG’s midfielder Christopher Nkunku remains a possibility.
Intriguing passing reference in the article to the disruption to player recruitment caused by Sven Mislintat’s departure.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47065677
It does Ned! Mostly 🙂
I often envy the supporters who can
go to games but during the 1st half
vs Cardiff I thought I’m bloody glad
I’m not there.
Fellaini off to China.
Hope Chinese cupboards are not set at elbow height.
This may turn into a rant. Apologies if I offend anyone.
There were these years after years of Arsenal playing exhilarating — and sometimes naive, as was expected with a group of talented youngsters managed by one of the most uncompromising football visionaries who prepared his teams on a philosophy and not on match-to-match tactical basis — football, not winning any silverware but always playing in CL and managing to do that within a strict budget while paying off the stadium debt. And much of the British media and a lot of the fanbase had nothing but criticism for such a life of the club.
One of that was, “What is the point of playing CL year after year if we are not going to win it?”
That always used to puzzle me. It is like Everton saying “What is the point of playing in PL if we are never going to win it?” The prestige? The financial benefits? It is not like Arsenal ever was an European superpower.
“We would rather win some domestic trophies than this boring top 4 and not going far in CL.”
So we did. Three FA Cups in four years the moment we could afford a couple of established world class players — let us not pretend that Ozil’s and later Alexis’ arrival didn’t contribute significantly to our cup runs. If the LWCs or LFC had done that (3 FA Cups in 4 years would have caused riots fueled by illicit drugs in Merseyside and in some corners of North London) while Arsenal just kept on playing exciting football in CL the media wouldn’t have stopped talking about the “failure” of Arsenal.
We are out of CL just for a couple of years, which coincided with the end of an era for this great club and hence a time for transformation. There is a new manager, who has no experience of the English football but seems to have done well for himself in Spain and France, and is young, hungry, and himself is on the path of his own career growth. He has been here for just half a year, inherited a somewhat unbalanced team that haven’t been defensively disciplined for a while now, and even in attack had lost the consistency of the once famous trademark fluency. Capable of both sublime and turgid football. The team is further decimated by a spate of injuries, including to a few players who seemed to be truly thriving under the new coaching — Bellerin and Holding, but also Wellbeck who one can see Emery was starting to get the best out of as a powerful, direct, tactically disciplined and clever winger — and yet to buy a player of his own choice (maybe Guendouzzi was his recommendation).
We are fourth in the league, Europa still offers a chance to kill two birds with one stone, and despite uninspiring football once the winter had set in we are still scoring a lot of goals. There are areas of improvements that even though may not be obvious to the naked eye are proved statistically: no goals conceded from corners in PL, team’s pressing, goals to shot ratio etc. The very young players seem to thrive: not just the more established ones like Bellerin or Iwobi but the next generation in AMN, ESR, Willock…
If some clever geneticist had isolated and then mixed all the best “football manager” genes of Pep, Klopp and Poch and gave us a ready-made manager extraordinaire how much more would he have achieved given everything else?
I guess he would have found a way to somehow turn the clock back for Ozil to 2014 and make him not only effervescent but also highly effective. Or figure out a way to Xhaka to cut down on his once-a-match lapse of sanity. Or tactically speaking find a way to fit Ozil and Ramsey together and get both attacking fluidity and defensive solidity out of that pair.
I am sure Emery is not “blind” (and neither was Arsene, no matter how much the naysayers had insisted on it), he realizes the scopes for improvements that this group of players have (individual improvements as well as collective improvements by upgrade), and he himself has, and I think we should be able to better evaluate his impact on the team a year from now when he will have had at least half a season to work with a team that he think can execute better on his plan.
Looks like ESR and Eddie are off
to Germany. Hope they can come
back and challenge for more
regular games next season.
Eddie is not going to Augsburg because we didn’t sign Perisic . He is said to be frustrated at his situation. I’m not surprised. He has played 1 minute of league football this year. He is a gem and I hope we don’t demotivate him.
I think Emery should stay maybe even for next two seasons but sometimes he really gets on my nerves with formation shenanigans. I prefer that diamond 4-4-2 we used against Chelsea…and stick to that! Manager should buy players to match his formation, not to make formation based on the players.
I know we play attacking football and that’s fine but don’t forget, Capello’s Milan were invincible with 4-4-2 and they were 58 games unbeaten. Sound familiar, eh?… and I remember the stories when Fabio was boss of Roma – when they won 1 – 0 everything was okay but when they won 2 – 1 he rose hell in the dressing room.
What he would say to our merry defence? Oh boy…
Dr F @ 43
Thoroughly enjoyable read,insightful perspective,with some very salient points.
We are not privy to what goes on behind the scenes,with the exception of H of course,after his visit there a few weeks ago,but the improvement technically in some of the players since Unai arrived,first started to unravel with the dubious tackle on the touch line by Rashford on Rob Holding at Old Trafford,sent one of our best defenders this season off to the sick bay for 9 months.
That was the first domino to fall.
Despite our consistent unlucky injury run,which Unai has refused to wail about,lest it sends the players a subliminal message that they can throw the towel in when the going gets tough,we are still hanging in there.
Perhaps Ned’s Monks can advise on the stats after 24 games last season,along with Chelsea and Utd,who are our 2 main threats vying for the top 4 .
I must admit to being slightly taken aback by Delia’s assertion that we have chosen the wrong Manager,after less than 6 months in charge.
It is very very difficult to field a balanced team considering all the disruptions with injuries,which finally came back to bite us in the defeat at Southampton.
I have great faith in Unai,and am thoroughly enjoying the current season,the flogging at Anfield aside. !!
On a side note,
Haven’t seen a recent post from Dorset Mick lately,
Hope all is okay,and the dishlickers are earning him a shilling or 2.
“…thoroughly enjoying the current season…”
yeah, right
I also pretend that cups don’t exist
Clive:
2018-19
Arsenal
P24 W 14 D5 L5 GF 50 GA 33 Pts 47
Position 4th Points off first 14
Chelsea P24 W 14 D5 L5 GF 40 GA 23 Pts 47
Position 5th Points off first 14
Man U P24 W 13 D6 L5 GF 48 GA 35 Its 45
Position 6th Points off first 16
2017-18
Arsenal P24 W 12 D6 L6 GF 45 GA 31 Pts 42
Position 6th Points off first 23
Chelsea P24 W 15 D5 L4 GF 45 GA 16 Pts 50
Position 3rd Points off first 15
Man U P24 W 16 D5 L3 GF 49 GA 16 Pts 53
Position 2nd Points off first 12
2016-17
Arsenal P24 W 14 D5 L5 GF 52 GA 28 Pts 47
Position 4th Points off first 12
Chelsea P24 W 19 D2 L3 GF 51 GA 17 Its 59
Position 1st Points off first 0
Man U P24 W 12 D9 L3 GF 36 GA 21 Pts 45
Position 6th Points off first 14
Many thnks Ned
Not a collective lot of difference in our for and against over the 3 seasons.
Whether the extra 5pts garnered this season will tip the scales in our favour for a CL spot will become a bit clearer after the double header with Spurs/Utd early March.
If we are still in touching distance by then,our run in against the lesser teams might just get us there.
Urgent breaking deadline day transfer news…..
https://uokhun.uk/2019/01/31/deadline-day-drama-at-spurs-as-club-signs-new-builder/
I think a lot of good sense has been written by Dr. F and Clive. I understand Delia’s frustrations because I don’t really understand yet exactly what Emery brings to the table but we must give him considerably longer to develop his own team with their own style.
My confusion results from the apathetic starts , the incredible messes we get into at the back from trying to play out from the back ( I dread our goal kicks they are almost an assist for the opposition) but we have been riddled by important injuries and against the best teams ( except at Anfield and in the Carabao Cup) have really done well.
I’ve determined to judge Emery in May….2020. Then we will be able to assess him better.
I’m not even sure that May 2020 is a fair point to judge Emery. It is clear that the squad still requires major surgery. We are supposedly one of the richest clubs in the world with one of the highest turnovers. Yet, the only way that this total shambles of a board can assist the manager in his rebuilding is to provide one player on loan??? Funny enough, Inter, PSG and a Chinese side did not want to just give us their players to borrow for a few months????
Funny that. I’d have thought they would be queuing up to hand over their best players to us??
Clive@50: One other difference between this season and last is that more goals are being scored/conceded throughout the league. 682 so far this season against 642 in the first 24 match weeks of last season.
The club has just promoted one of its data analytics team, Ben Knapper, to the new position of Loans Manager, which suggests a more systematic approach will be taken to the development of the younger players through the loans system.
@54
Interesting Ned.
One wonders if that is more attacking football,or poorer defending.
Chelsea/City and Utd have certainly conceded more goals this season than last.
Utd by far the worst, having conceded more than double from last season.
I cannot see how we will not concede 50 again this season with still 14 games to play.
I’m here less often now that so many think there is more to life than laughing at Spurs, so I’ve only just read Dr Faustus’s piece above.
I think I agree with every word he writes.
UTA COYG
255 – They should have called him the Loan Arranger just for the lols.
(Continues laughing at Spurs.)
Nice to hear from you, esteemed Pangloss, and the learned Dr. Faustus.
Tonight I accidentally came across our 6-0 destruction of Sheffield United in the League Cup around 2008- Vela, Ramsey, Wilshere, Gibbs, Simpson and a superstar called Bendtner
Watch it and weep over a lost generation
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fk1dizfOHw
Clive@56: The Premier League is using a new ball this season, Nike’s Merlin, which is advertised as allowing players to ‘pass and shoot with more accuracy’. So that might be part of the explanation for the higher scoring.
TTG@60: Great find. I always felt Vela was the one who should have gone on to be an Arsenal superstar. Such a talent, but six years of shuffling between loans and only 64 first team games for us, I guess means he never settled. But 69 goals in 252 La Liga games suggests he could play when he got the chance.
Where are they now?
Fabianski (West Ham)
Hoyte (Dagenham & Redbridge), Song (FC Sion), Djourou (without club), Gibbs (WBA)
Wilshere (West Ham), Randall (Crawley Town), Ramsey (Arsenal)
Vela (Los Angeles FC), Bendtner (Rosenborg), Merida (CA Osasuna)
Bench: Mannone (Reading), Coquelin (Valencia), Emmanuel-Thomas (PTT Rayong), Lansbury (Aston Villa), Ogogo (Bristol Rovers), Simpson (without club), Frimpong (without club).
pete shelley
god rest genius
.
jeremy
.
when people die
it fills me full of
I DON’T KNOWS
not
what could a should a
.
fuckin fantastic funny fuck
Is it my age
Is it their age
everyone around me
my mates
are
rowing up for
DEAD
.
.
anyhoo
goonerholic gooners
eff off
shower o pooooooooves
Frimpong must have beennthe magic word.
Good to see you back in the drinks, cba.
difficult things have dictated
attitude and health
.
j the rees M
the
came over here
this week
on the invitation of ian óg
.
it’s interesting
turdly little pretend twat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t-e_HmvBCI
.
oooooooh
get you
ya monumental fairy
ahhh
8ball
i had no intention of splurging here anymore
.
.
this brexit nonsense has riled a few people
maybe ?
people who always thought to themselves
“No 1 ”
.
.
.
I’ve always been a socialist in my outlook
i never thought to trample over heavy set
lumps to
je know what
but
sometimes
the ENGLISH
sing songs of stuff
need to WISE UP
.
.
but
clearly
THAT AIN’T HAPPENING
i can’t be any clearer
that’s wrong
i could
but
i doe wanna
arseholes
goofballs
them as can’t think beyond their eyebrows
twats
and
turds
self satisfied shitheads
.
.
am i barred again tory boy ?
you voted those cunts in
they thought
D’ye know what
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrjHz5hrupA
One more or less white nigger”
goofballs that sprayed gunfire
or
consideratley shot one at a time
.
.
.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10320609
I’m fed up again
England throwing its weight around again
and
for once
we aren’t on our own
and
more than that
we have everyone who always thought the same
queuing up to to say
we always thought they were arrogant cunts too
.
.
i heart Europe
66 8 ball
i won’t be back long
i flagged up ages ago
what was in ordinary decent people’s
minds that i knew
and
Yeah
blaaaaah
this Brexit thing
is not a British thing
it’s an English thing
whatever a British thing is ?
pompous
pompous
bla bla bluster
“we bloody well can give Jerry another bloody nose”
you can’t
you didn’t
it was everyone else did
brave men and true spoke many languages
one of them was English
.
anyhoo
.
.
happy football
you seem to talk a lot about that
in olden days
i’d stretch my nonsense to 100
i’m not gonna
sorry ‘hol
you are a tory
you voted these people in
Jeremy Hardy
a funny fucker
was having none of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4WkFnCQLVQ
First glimpses of Denis Suarez, our new signing:
https://www.offthepost.info/blog/2019/02/video-denis-suarez-scores-beauty-arsenal-prepare-face-man-city/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+offthepost%2FTLAa+%28Off+The+Post%29
well
you can have a tune for a start ksn
go on
go on
ye know ye want one
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwjuKhBIIIQ
yay! cba is back! time to get the party started!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2DrZhOBO9o
GOLDEN !!
cheers
the artist formerly known BIGGERLER
my time here
i’m sure is limited
cos i splurge an flallap an
tickle and fffnurggle
here
in the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrmMAvtYIQg
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
go on
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTgFy70VGYo
oooooooh
ooooooooh
oooooo oooooh
a shithead handing over
to a shithead introducing
GREATNESS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S_k1hqUq5I
nite nite, cba. 😀
learn to spell , shiver boy
having said that
take this whatever way you will
for a convoluted reason
none of your bastardin concern
ya nosey count
bottles of blackcurrant wine i make from jam
are called 8balls
13%
big favourite
i told you before herself liked you
the wee tablet i type on becomes the remote
for the tv sometimes
so occasionally if wordifications from me
seemed uncharacteristically splendid
it probably wasn’t me
was her
(or wee Sean god rest him who used to sneakily waffle on here under my flag – he died last year so no more outta that cunt)
brilliant, even for a bunch of old farts.
what about the kids?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV55IwBEa14
maybe this is more appropriate for the wee hours of the night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxEjBw69ce0
kids , eh ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzQ7Fdbhm18
bit silly
bit corny
shit video
they should go far
cheerio
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time for a power snooze
then some work that egomaniacal
professional english people assume
happens and will continue to happen
regardless of how nonsensical their ideas
or clothing are
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toodle pip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSvHQh-hWO0
@45
agree with that TTG.
I think we’ve loaned out less players
than any other PL club this window.
Can’t see why really.
It’s not as if we couldn’t put in a
return clause in the case of an
injury crisis. Maybe our new Loan
Manager Ben Knapper will make us
more active.
Welcome back cba,
You are misguided, as I’m sure most on Twitter could confirm, about me being a tory boy. You are quite right about Brexit being an English thing, sought by the extremes of political opinion and now with total disregard for the obvious consequences. Not least being what will now happen across the Irish Sea.
I could weep.
Anyhow, welcome back.
Brexit is not an English thing, unless Wales is England.
As for Ireland, let them have it. North and South.
Nobody really cares. If the IRA hadn’t relaunched itself in the 60s, the mainland population wouldn’t have given a tuppenny fuck about the North and reunification would have been achieved by now. Possibly.
Makes me laugh to see England called bigoted by such a sectarian population as the Irish (all Ireland), and the same goes for Scotland. If you want lessons in bigotry look no further than Scotland and Ireland.
This place used to be an Arsenal blog.
We now, hopefully, can return to being just that.
No reply to this is necessary as no further response will be given. Ta.
More than ever, I aspire to renounce cynicism and become a sceptic.
COYG
Just how lucky can spuds get?!?!
Dubravka with a howler
Sectarian blog? Maybe now it is but probably just because it is no longer a septuagenarian blog. Octogenarian, more like. And you all can kiss my octopus ?
Or not. Denis Suarez being from Pontevedra that should have been pulpo gallego.
Had an octopus for dinner tonight
– tasted better than some of the
aging stringy denizens of this bar
I’d wager
Nice tune CBA. Really beautiful days, the seventies when I was a teenager with not a care in the world.
Paul Ince feels that Wolves could finish sixth in the league at the cost of either Chelsea or Arsenal. The twat.
All, this is an Arsenal blog, not a place for venting political frustrations, of which I understand only too well that there are many. Cheers.
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